Alastair Thain

Damien Hirst, London, 1995

Damien Hirst is an english artist. entrepreneur and art collector. He was a part of Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. With a reported net worth of 1 billion dollars, making him one of the richest living artists.

Death is a predominant theme in Hirst’s works. He garnered fame and attention for his series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved in formaldehyde.